Many authors I work with are independent authors, and even those who are trad published tend to be incredibly competent, self-contained people. It’s not a bad quality, but like anything, it can be overdone to the point of becoming a problem. 

I talk a lot about mental and emotional well-being for authors, and something I notice in responses is the idea that what I mean is you may someday reach a point where you feel good all the time and nothing affects you. Y’all probably already know this, but that’s not what well-being looks like, right? 

There is little that gives me more of a dopamine hit than putting together a system or process that produces maximum efficiency to a task I don’t enjoy doing. If I can automate something for my author business, I will. Set-it-and-forget-it is the dream, right?